On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 05:20:07PM -0500, Thomas Widlar wrote:
> Another problem. I am using my readword() function to read numbers from
> my bloated
> test data file. It uses these commands,
>
> line: readline(f), words:split(line), nwords:length(words),
> nlines:nlines+1;
....
> What do I have to do to the numbers I read in (evidently as strings) so they
> can be used as numbers.
>
check out stringproc http://maxima.sourceforge.net/docs/manual/en/maxima_72.html#IDX2061
I think you want map(parsetoken,words)... I also suspect that you
could do all of this in a more functional style rather than writing
loops, but it may be not worth it to you at the moment.
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Daniel Lakeland
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